Question

what caused the civil war?

Answer 1

While many still debate the ultimate causes of the Civil War, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson writes that, "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become ...

Answer 2

It was basically between the Northern and Southern states. The southern had slaves while the Northern didn't. The southern gained a crap ton of land, and the northern had less land, even though they had to same amount of states. So on so forth.